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Though shows have gotten better over the years (probably because the audience has gotten smarter or better informed), quite a few of these tricks don't actually work, or don't work nearly as well as they do on TV.

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Though shows have gotten better over the years (probably because the audience has gotten smarter or better informed), quite a few of these tricks don't actually work, work or don't work nearly as well as they do on TV.



* BitterAlmonds
* CondensationClue
* ConvictionByContradiction
* CorpseTemperatureTampering
* EnhanceButton
* FacialRecognitionSoftware
* FingerprintingAir
* ForensicAccounting
* GoingByTheMatchbook
* GPSEvidence
* IdentificationByDentalRecords

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* BitterAlmonds
BitterAlmonds: The evidence smells like bitter almonds, proving poisoning by cyanide.
* CondensationClue
CondensationClue: Steaming a crystal surface to reveal a hidden message previously written on it.
* ConvictionByContradiction
ConvictionByContradiction: Finding a hole in someone's alibi proves their guilt, with no chance for reasonable doubt.
* CorpseTemperatureTampering
CorpseTemperatureTampering: Obfuscating the time of death by interfering with the cooling of a dead body.
* EnhanceButton
EnhanceButton: Impossible image enhancement, often used to identify minuscule cues.
* FacialRecognitionSoftware
FacialRecognitionSoftware: Computers can easily scan and identify a suspect based on a photo or video.
* FingerprintingAir
FingerprintingAir: It's unrealistically easy for the police to find the fingerprints needed for their investigation.
* ForensicAccounting
ForensicAccounting: Cracking secrets by tracing their finances and paperwork.
* GoingByTheMatchbook
GoingByTheMatchbook: The logo of a book of matches provides a clue to where its owner has recently been.
* GPSEvidence
GPSEvidence: Your evidence only occurs in a single part of the world!
* IdentificationByDentalRecordsIdentificationByDentalRecords: The corpse is so devastated that its identity can only be confirmed by looking at its teeth.

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* TheKillerWasLeftHanded
* LocardsTheory
* OmniscientDatabase
* SuperIdentikit
* WritingIndentationClue

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* TheKillerWasLeftHanded
TheKillerWasLeftHanded: Deduction based on the dominant hand of a suspect.
* LocardsTheory
LocardsTheory: When two things touch there is always a small amount of each left behind.
* OmniscientDatabase
OmniscientDatabase: Highly improbable crime-solving search engines.
* SuperIdentikit
SuperIdentikit: Police suspect sketch artists are super-humanly good.
* WritingIndentationClue
WritingIndentationClue: Revealing indentations made by the missing, prior page's writing by scribbling on a blank page.


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* CorpseTemeratureTampering

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[GreatDetective World's Greatest Detective]]]]

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* MagicalDatabase

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* MagicalDatabaseOmniscientDatabase

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